Submerged

Chapter 12

Dante

My wife looks so beautiful in her tight dress and heels. All made up just for me, my hand in hers as she stares in horror at her ex lover chained to the wall. She looks out of place here. A pretty flame in the depths of a dark, musty warehouse.

As soon as the surveillance footage arrived through a secured server I went straight to the footage of the DeLuca community and what I saw confirmed the theory I had about Alessia's 'friend'. I immediately called Riot and asked him to send Jamie to me. He had no objections to handing the soldier over so he arrived a few hours later via jet escorted by one of Riots men.

I should've been combing through the footage to see if anyone from the DeLuca family killed my father but my mind refused to focus on anything but my wife and her ex lover.

Alessia turns those glistening amber eyes toward me and it takes everything in me not to fall at her feet. I don't like upsetting her. I want to make her happy more than anything else, but I can't ignore what she's done. I need her to be aware that, although I will never harm her, I will slaughter any man who thinks he has access to her. Intimately or otherwise.

"Don't do this." She begs, tears slipping down her cheeks. "Please let him go."

Her tears are a hard thing to witness but unfortunately in this case it's unavoidable.

My jaw clenches, hand aching to reach up and cradle her tear streaked face. "You begging for his life only angers me more, piccolina."

She turns her back to Jamie as if she can't handle the sight of him here in this state any longer, peering up at me through a fan of thick black eyelashes. "I thought you said we had a date."

I fight a smirk, seeing right through her. She's trying her best to distract me and it's cute but it won't work.

"We do, with Jamie." I take her tight dress in with greedy eyes. "But we can go out for dinner afterwards if you want." It's probably close to two in the morning by now but I could figure it out, being Don does have a few perks. "You are dressed very nicely for me."

"You're insane." She mutters, blinking at me in disbelief.

"I'm actually very logical, piccolina, but where you're concerned well... you need to understand that I'll go to great lengths to ensure you're mine and only mine." I guide her closer to where I have him chained to the wall, his face bloody and bruised from the discussion we had before I gave in and removed one of his fingers when he refused to speak. "I've seen the surveillance footage. I want to know what you two did, where you went and I want the truth this time. Each time you lie I'll take another finger and once we're out of fingers I'll have to move onto something a little more painful."

I'd asked Jamie but he'd kept his mouth shut which was fine because Alessia seeing him alive and broken would work more in my favor anyway. It would set the precedent for what happens to men she gives her attention to.

Her brow furrows. "But if you've seen the surveillance you know we left the community and where we went."

Cazzo. My blood boiled in my veins at the sight of her getting in his car when I watched that footage.

I nod. "Yes but I want to hear it from you. Where did you go when you left the community?"

I want to see if she will tell the truth or lie. Will she try to hide where they went and what they did?

Her lower lip trembles. "Dante..." She stares at me for a moment and then must realize we won't leave this room until she answers. "We went back to his apartment."

I cup her face, unable to fight the urge any longer, swiping the tears from her cheeks with my thumbs. "And what did you do?"

Her eyes shutter closed as if she can't stomach looking at me while coming clean. "We kissed."